By Paul Bailey, Melbourne Labouring Community
It’s full speed ahead, and I’m not sure if we’ve filled up the tank with enough fuel!
The train tracks: Monash University, and open for service; the Train: Monash Navs, and it has begun its journey. “ALL ABOARD!” was called at our first (more…)
By Dustyn McLaren
It’s exciting to be preparing to get back to Uni ministry for 2025. Who but God knows what lies ahead and whose path he will bring us across!
Dustyn and his daughter, Laylah, will be working together this year. Photo: supplied.
Please be in prayer for us as we prepare those who are joining us for Orientation Week. Pray for Adrien, Hayden, Callan, Ollie, Laylah and others who God may yet bring to the team. So cool to have my daughter joining me at campus this year!!
O-week is a special opportunity as new students are particularly searching for where they fit in, how they will be involved at uni and who will talk to them. Many are looking for conversations but are afraid to start them. Others just can’t wait to make new friends. Pray God will guide our steps and lead us with wisdom to have inspiring conversations that will lead people to spend time with us, be keen to open the Bible together and eventuate in believers and disciples of Jesus who join us in labouring in the harvest.
Continue to pray for pre-believers in whom we are investing, including Michael, Matt, Simon and others.
I am looking forward to sharing the Bridge Illustration as an elective for the teachers at a local Christian school during Personal Development week. The aim is to equip them with an accessible, clear and visual way to easily share the gospel. I am praying this may be personally reclarifying to those who choose this elective and inspire them to share it with others in their lives, but particularly with the students they teach. The school has also provided other opportunities to invest in the lives of students and God has provided some of their graduates to join us in Uni ministry.
I am thankful for God’s blessings from 2024 including the Asia Pacific Emerging Leaders (APEL) conference.
Nathanael and I have been praying for Josh for a long time and he surrendered to the Lord in October. Pray for his new mentor as Nathanael moves to Sydney to study at SMBC this year.
Over the Christmas break I had the unusual opportunity to co-host Gympie City’s ‘Christmas in the Park’ community carols. Not my normal thing to be fully suited-up and on-stage in front of more than a thousand people. It was great to give Jesus glory in front of so many.
Dustyn labours in the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, and is supported by his wife, Hannah, and their three lovely daughters. To find out more about their ministry, visit: https://navigators.org.au/staff/mclarendh/
By Scott Brown
“In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”
– John 16:23–24 –
If you’ve kept up with our updates you know we’ve repeatedly asked you to pray for more labourers – especially younger ones who will help us reach the upcoming generations for years to come. It fills us with joy to share a few ways the Lord has answered “yes” to your prayers recently.
In our last update we asked you to pray for two students who were thinking of joining us in campus ministry. Gratefully, the Lord has given each of them a clear sense of calling and they have moved forward in faith!
Now, after discipling them for the last 3 years, Haven Barr and Jordan McMahon will be joining us as ministry apprentices at Macquarie University! They are both eager to labour life-on-life and to help the generation following them at Macquarie to grow in their love for God and their love for others as they fill their lives with His glorious purposes. By God’s grace, this will result in a growing community of young adults who launch new spiritual generations of labourers “rooted and built up” in the Lord (Colossians 2:7).
Please keep praying!!!!
God has not only provided two young labourers for the campus, but He has added some younger labourers to our roster throughout the Sydney area.
Jonathan was also discipled at Macquarie during our early years in Australia. He works full-time as a business systems analyst, but is joining our Sydney team of labourers as an associate who is focusing on discipleship through the local church. In particular, he is largely discipling “tradie” men – a predominantly untargeted demographic of people who work in a trade job.
Our daughter Leah (Pieri),has taken up a position in the National Office and will be serving the Navigator community in a variety of ways. The faithful frontline office team enables us in the work of building generational labourers and is critical to everything we do. We are excited to have Leah working with us!
Mike & Sian Stucken have been a part of the Navigators for many years but have also joined our Sydney team as associates. Mike will be helping with our ministry among business professionals in the heart of the city, and together, they are discipling others in their local area on the Central Coast.
Another local, who grew up in a Navigator staff family and now works for the New South Wales Police, has recently felt the Lord leading him toward discipleship within the first responders community. Now serving as an Associate on our Sydney team, we are working together to pioneer new discipleship opportunities within the police force.
All of these people represent God’s gracious provision and your prayers at work! We are so grateful for all the Lord is doing and ask that you would continue to intercede for us, and for each of these precious labourers.
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Scott Brown and his wife, Tami, lead the Sydney Labouring Community. To find out more or get involved with the Sydney team, contact us at navigators.org.au or visit https://navigators.org.au/staff/brownst/
Featured image of the Sydney Opera House by photoholgic on Unsplash.
By Tim Mapperson, Melbourne Labouring Community
It was mid-June. Stepping out into the cold winter night, we closed the door for the last time. We had been meeting at this Community Centre in Carlton for many years as a campus ministry. Tonight was to be our final night. This season was coming to an end. (more…)
By Luke Midena, Canberra Labouring Community
Something I love about campus ministries is the intensity and depth of engagement we have with people for a short window of time. As hard as it is when students move on, there is an endless influx of opportunity.
I recently farewelled Isaak, who moved back to the US with a firm relationship with God. (more…)
By Luke Midena, National Leadership Team
The National Leadership Team met with the National Council on the first weekend of April to hear from God’s Word, pray, study Job, and plan and discuss this year’s priorities. Luke gives us a glimpse into what’s happening in one of our communities – Brisbane (and Queensland, for that matter) usually “flies under the radar” and we don’t often hear about what’s going on up there. But, the Lord continues to work in people’s hearts, whether we see it or not. He is prompting established and new generations to reach out in cities, universities, churches, local communities, all the way up to remote regional areas. (more…)
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